a. (UN-1 7 b and 5 b.)
1882. A. Gray, in Eclectic Mag., XXXV. 738. Natural Selection continually took away the unadaptable, to give room and opportunity to the better-adapted.
1886. Athenæum, 17 April, 530/2. ‘Tom Jones’ is, in fact, unadaptable [as a play].
